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<p>Oh, no. That’s not what I was implying at all. However, I do not think we should exaggerate our capacity to secure it.</p>
<p>^^ lol I live in Maine so I could care less. People from Canada aren’t crossing the border for work any time soon.</p>
<p>^^ you aren’t a very fun person.</p>
<p>I currently think the whole system of how illegal immigrants get deported from the US is terrible.</p>
<p>The family that use to clean our house a lot, were all deported and it ended up making it so the mother and father were split apart for over a year, and the kids were stuck without seeing their parents for over a year. The whole situation was terrible and the family would most likely not of been able to meet up for a LONG time if we didn’t provide assistance.</p>
<p>yeah… personal anecdotes are the way to go when deciding national policies</p>
<p>^oh just shut up</p>
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<p>now you’re putting words in my mouth; but in my opinion the whole process of how people get deported - to where they were born - can easily separate and destroy families and I personally think there would be better alternatives.</p>
<p>Just my 2cents.</p>
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<p>We do offer a path for legalization. Foreigners can get a visa or permanent resident status. Millions of immigrants have legally used this path.</p>
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<p>That’s still no excuse. They should wait their turn like all the other immigrants.</p>
<p>A lot of illegal immigrants DO want visas and citizenship. They’re here because they had a choice of waiting to immigrate or coming in illegally and they were impatient/needed to leave their native country for whatever reason. (and since most immigrants come to the US for a chance at a better life, what is there to deny them?) Immigration (legal or not) is the mostly reason that Americans learned to accept diversity and differences. </p>
<p>I have to agree with the post about it possibly being a national security threat though.</p>
<p>Bagelsbagels is making it sound more like a race issue atm. </p>
<p>smh.</p>
<p>lol I’ve never mentioned race at all</p>
<p>but that’s what it’s coming off as.</p>
<p>(could just be me, and if it is, i apologize)</p>
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<li>If they really desperately need to leave the country, they can apply for a visa for asylum or as a refugee.</li>
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<p>Couple of things:
-The VAST majority of people who are coming over here are just people looking for a better life and a way to escape the violence and drugs (btw, that America is one of the major causes of). So it is considerably our fault that Mexico is the way it is and that they need a place to escape to. </p>
<p>-Citizenship is nearly impossible to achieve from Latino countries. My friend’s cousin’s husband JUST got US citizenship. He started applying when he married my friend’s cousin… about 10 years ago. Since then, she has lived in Mexico with him while they waited for him to get citizenship. His family is one of the wealthiest in Mexico, which greatly expedited his citizenship. He has an American wife, 2 American kids, he is wealthy, and it still took him over a decade. That is INSANE. When most of our ancestors came over, they came through Ellis Island, signed some papers, and got to come into America. </p>
<p>-Yes, they are a strain on our economy. But the dirty little secret is that we wouldn’t have cheap food without them, we wouldn’t have many of the cheap things that we currently have. They also WANT to pay taxes (and most of them DO), but they can’t because they’re afraid of deportation. </p>
<p>@Binders- do you have ANY idea how hard it is to get refugee status here in America, especially from Mexico?</p>
<p>And you guys want to know what else? There are VAST amounts of LEGAL Mexican immigrants who WANT to patrol the boarder to stop drugs from coming in. Make immigration easier and then we can stop the REAL criminals who are smuggling things over the boarder.</p>
<p>Mexico is mostly in shambles because they spend their efforts trying to escape their own country instead of fixing it. So I think we are actually helping Mexico if we stop taking all their hard workers away from them.</p>
<p>mexico is in shambles because of the drug trade, which thrives because of america</p>
<p>Most of those drugs come from south America and works its way up to Canada.</p>
<p>How do you guys feel about the AZ immigration laws?</p>
<p>Poorly executed. But something had to be done.</p>
<p>The idea behind them isn’t necessarily bad, but they easily could of led to some slippery slopes with racial profiling.</p>
<p>^^^ A bad solution, but the best they could do considering…</p>